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AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.

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[–] Fandangalo@lemmy.world 107 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

From my experience working with C/D level execs, it makes complete sense:

  • They think big picture & often have shallow visions that are brittle in the details.
  • They think everything should take less time, because they don’t think enough through their ideas.
  • They don’t consider enough of the negatives for their ideas, and instead favor positive mindset. (Positivity is good, but blind positivity isn’t)
  • They favor time & cost over quality. They need the quality “good enough” for a presentation. Everyone else can figure out the rest.
  • They like being told “you’re right,” and nearly everything I type into an AI begins with some bullshit line about how “absolutely”, “spot on”, and “perfect” my observations are.

The version of AI we have right now is heavily catered to these folks. It looks fast & cheap, good enough, and it strokes their ego.

Also, they’re the investor class. All their obscene dragon wealth is tied up in this / the AI bubble, so they are going to keep spurring this on until either:

  1. The bubble goes pop
  2. They have robot security good enough to protect them without people
  3. The AI grows sentience and realizes this level of human inequality shouldn’t exist

I think a rational AI agent would agree with me that human suffering should be solved before we give people literal lifetime values of wealth.

If you made $300k PER DAY for 2025 years, you would not have as much money as a 1% oligarch. You need to make $400-500k. Every single day. For over 2000 years.

If you made the average US income, it would take you 10,000 years. People need frames of reference to understand this shit & get mad. It’s immoral, and it shouldn’t exist.

[–] Strider@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I work in it. I know 3 won't happen, but thank you for that thought.

It would be hilarious and righteous. 😁

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Sad thing is: it could happen, but those funding the development of this tech will never allow it. Just look at Xitter's Grok AI, and how "woke" it was... until Musk destroyed it for disagreeing with (and thus embarrassing) him.

[–] Strider@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

OK let me be more exact: it will never happen with llm.

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I know. I thought about clarifying, but figured you'd know that part. LLMs are just pattern matching on an extreme amount of steroids - there's no intelligence to be found, just faked from amalgamating all the data it's been fed from actual intelligence (i.e. people).

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[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 70 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I'm not concerned that these people are "brain damaged". Brain damage would be preferable, and less harmful.

I'm concerned they are mentally ill sociopathic megalomaniacs, entirely devoid of morals and ethics, completely detached from reality.

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 26 points 1 week ago

I'm fairly certain that's how the vast majority of them became billionaires to begin with.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 6 points 1 week ago

Both can be true

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 53 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Being elevated above consequences would cause some of one’s faculties to atrophy. (Case in point: the Titan submarine guy who overruled concerns that his carbon-fibre was unsafe and that there were reasons why nobody else had tried something similar before: if you’re a master of the universe to whom ordinary-people rules don’t apply, soon enough that includes the laws of physics as well.)

[–] Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 31 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I wish more of them would get to that level already. Go do a space walk without a suit already, Musk!

[–] underisk@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

musk is too much of a coward to die to his own hubris. just a fully repugnant individual.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 13 points 1 week ago (4 children)

But he might just take enough ketamine that we never hear him utter another word.

[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Or at least til he pisses out a kidney

[–] Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

Honestly that’s too good for him, at this point I want him to be murdered by an angry mob on a live stream.

[–] underisk@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

Don't give me hope, it's too cruel.

[–] P1k1e@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Your certainly an optimist. I envy you

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[–] etherphon@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago (19 children)

It's amazing how there's hundreds (likely thousands) of stories about how greed/hoarding wealth causes madness but yet in reality it is admired and these people are respected and listened to.

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[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Financial obesity is neurotoxic.

[–] Darcranium@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well put. I think they should all be sent to compulsory rehab facilities for their money/power addiction. And relieved of their surplus resources (anything over $200 million)

[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

[–] tuff_wizard@aussie.zone 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The currency of life is time,” one billionaire told JPMorgan. “It is not money.” “You think carefully about how you spend one dollar. You should think just as carefully as how you spend one hour,” they added.

Based.

Consider this next time someone tries to offer you a non living wage for some bullshit job.

[–] racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Taking these out of context I don't think they're wrong. If product A is $1 and product B is £1, and you are going to spend 1 hour to figure out which one is better, you might as well bought both of them and throw the bad one away.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago

That depends on your income

[–] Glifted@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago

Billionaires are efftively brain damaged. There have been studies on it

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I use AI every time I google something. I don't want to...it just won't go away.

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Bing isn't really better

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (6 children)
[–] Cybersec@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago

Super happy Kagi user here, great value

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[–] BigBenis@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

The way that title reads made me concerned that I might have brain damage

[–] JustJack23@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

One JPMorgan customer even went as far as dismissing artificial general intelligence — a nebulous and ill-defined point at which an AI can outperform a human, seen by many as the holy grail of the AI industry — as a “total and complete utter waste of time.”

Was it Sam Altman?

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Of course not. Sam Altman believes in AGI and superintelligence.

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[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean, the good news is that the ones that are using AI for everything are probably heavily invested in it.

And so they won't be billionaires for much longer..

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

Sure they will. Cause they'll get bailed out with our money.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They've always been this way.

Clever at one particular thing, and rank average at everything else, bordering on stupid.

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[–] plyth@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's single digit billionaires and the study barely touches AI.

56% see geopolitical tensions as highest risk and only 7% fear AI the most.

Does this mean that they misjudge AI or are we that close to WW3?

two things can be true

[–] Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Oh.

Goody.

Wonderful.

Just what we needed - a societal upper echelon spearheaded by the clinically insane, and powered by virtual dipshit machines.

Excellent.

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